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By Franz Wild
Kinshasa
25 January 2007

Human rights group Amnesty International warned Thursday the Democratic Republic of Congo's army reform threatens its stability. Franz Wild has the details from Kinshasa.






Congolese army soldiers use a bicycle to transport a wounded soldier after battles with a local warlord (File photo - 28 Nov 2006) 


Congolese army soldiers use a bicycle to transport a wounded soldier after battles with a local warlord (file photo - 28 Nov 2006) 



Amnesty says Congo's transition to peace and democracy could be undone 1, if the process of reforming the army and integrating rebel groups is not drastically changed.


In a report, it says what it calls the "failed scheme" risks leading to new political and military crises, with increased violence and more human rights violations 3.


Rebel commanders have received high-ranking positions in the national army, despite allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.


The human rights group identifies corruption 4 as a central problem with the army. It says commanders inflate 5 troop numbers to receive more pay, but little of this trickles 6 through to the soldiers at the bottom.


It says the army resorts to armed robbery and violation 2 of human rights to extort 7 money from civilians 8. The United Nations considers the national army Congo's worst human rights abuser.


Congo started reforming its army in 2003, after rebel groups signed up to end five years of war, which left nearly four million people dead.


President Joseph Kabila, who was confirmed in office in last year's first elections in four decades, has pledged to improve the security situation in Congo, especially in its turbulent east.


He has the support of the U.N.'s biggest peacekeeping mission, with nearly 18,000 military personnel.




a.未做完的,未完成的
  • He left nothing undone that needed attention.所有需要注意的事他都注意到了。
n.违反(行为),违背(行为),侵犯
  • He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说,那是违反规则的。
  • He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。
违反( violation的名词复数 ); 冒犯; 违反(行为、事例); 强奸
  • This is one of the commonest traffic violations. 这是常见的违反交通规则之例。
  • These violations of the code must cease forthwith. 这些违犯法规的行为必须立即停止。
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
vt.使膨胀,使骄傲,抬高(物价)
  • The buyers bid against each other and often inflate the prices they pay.买主们竞相投标,往往人为地提高价钱。
  • Stuart jumped into the sea and inflated the liferaft.斯图尔特跳到海里给救生艇充气。
n.细流( trickle的名词复数 );稀稀疏疏缓慢来往的东西v.滴( trickle的第三人称单数 );淌;使)慢慢走;缓慢移动
  • Trickles of sweat rained down my head and neck. 我颈上头上的汗珠,更同盛雨似的,一颗一颗的钻出来了。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
  • Water trickles through an underground grotto. 水沿着地下岩洞流淌。 来自辞典例句
v.勒索,敲诈,强要
  • The blackmailer tried to extort a large sum of money from him.勒索者企图向他勒索一大笔钱。
  • They absolutely must not harm the people or extort money from them.严格禁止坑害勒索群众。
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
学英语单词
'Arad
a man and a brother
agent of carrier
alarm signal
all weather liquefied petroleum gas
annihilation gamma quantum
anuerobic respiration
arteria frontalis medialis
ascent rate
beat frequency meter
bloodthirsties
blower sprayer
body scoring
body searches
central oscillating cylinder linkage
chante
Cheneyville
cherry gum
chrysops flavescens
circular behavior
cold junciton
composition of conductor
converted journal entry
coshocton
digit significant
dishabituations
distillation with steam
Dolgaya Kosa
dotted crotchet
enthalpy of desalting
equilibrium reflux boiling point
extensive operations in farming
factory-worker
fast feathering
fiber bush
file allocation tables
film studio
float wheel
floating point base
gorge-walking
grandmozzer
gravity brake
haemoglobinopathy
hot-head
hydraulic-controlled bulldozer
Ifergane
insect endocrinology
intermediate speed pinion
iron(ii) metavanadate
joint effort
Ladies' Gallery
lakhdars
late release
line controller
mahanta
maukish
monodictys putredinis
motor repair
multipath signal
munchy
N star N
new-metal
newley
nickel(ii) nitrate ammoniated
nonprison
oblique speech
Oil Sample
oppressors
papier
peer entity authentication
personal liability policy
promotion activities
protection setting
radio telemetering
rated d.c. output current
red lead anticorrosive primer
red-mouth
reference stress
repine
revolver loan
ride easy
Ring of the Nibelung, The
rood-lofts
Sales Oliveira
schemies
screenings wrapping
seerhand
shirt dress
Sinemurian Stage
spasmodic cholera
spreadsheet package
stagnation line
storage utilization
style book
superkids
syndrome of stirring wind due to blood deficiency
Teeswaters
Tottori
turn our back on
urocyclid
VLAP
world legal order